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GROUND SCHOOL ASIGNMENT #2
METEOROLOGY 2
1. Define the following:
a) air mass
b) maritime air
c) continental air
2. What are the three main sources of the air masses of North America?
3. What are the three main factors that determine the weather in an air mass?
4. List the characteristics of a cold air mass and a warm air mass.
5. Define a front.
6. Define a cold front and a warm front.
7. What is the difference between an occluded warm front and an occluded cold front?
8. Define:
a) frontogenesis
b) frontolysis
9. Briefly describe all weather changes associated with passage of a cold front.
10. What is a line squall?
11. Briefly describe the weather changes associated with passage of a warm front.
12. Assume you are flying through a warm front entering from the cold side at 5,000 feet.
The freezing level is 10,000 feet in the warm air and surface in the cold air. What types of
precipitation are you likely to encounter during your flight and in what order?
13. What are the two ways in which clouds are formed?
14. Briefly describe the five lifting agents.
15. Describe the following forms of precipitation:
a) drizzle
b) rain
c) hail
d) snow pellets
e) snow
f) ice prisms
g) ice pellets
16. List and breifly describe how the different types of fog are formed.
17. What is haze?
18. Define the following:
a) visibility
b) flight visibility
c) ground visibility
19. Decode and define VMC and IMC.
20. What are the three basic requirements for the formation of a thunderstorm?
21. What are the three stages in the life cycle of a thunderstorm?
22. Briefly describe the two main types of thunderstorms.
23. What is a gust front?
24. List the hazards associated with flight in or close to a thunderstorm.
25. List four different ways icing affects the airplane.
26. List and describe the three different types of icing.
27. What type of cloud is severe clear ice likely?
28. What type of cloud is rime ice likely?
29. List three different types of anti-icers or de-icers.
30. List the four different types of turbulence.
31. What does CAVOK mean? What does CAVU mean?
32. Assume the temperature at an airport with elevation of 1,500’ is 27 degrees Celcius. The
dewpoint is 17 degrees Celcius and there is a lot of convective daytime heating. What height
AGL would the base of convective type clouds form, what would the freezing level in the cloud
be and what would the temperature be at 25,000’ ASL in and out of the cloud?